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Stateline.orgJune 11, 2008States vary across the country as to whether they honor marriages with no gay exception, which can cause great harm to couples and their families as they travel and try to protect their legal rights. (Link)

Pink NewsJune 11, 2008Members of Parliament in Norway today approved a bill that will end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage by 84 votes to 41. Family Issues minister Anniken Huitfeldt noted, "The new law won't weaken marriage as an institution. Rather, it will strengthen it. Marriage won't be worth less because more can take part in it." (Link)

The News-PressJune 11, 2008The amendment takes away current legal rights of people in relationships which are the "substantial equivalent" of marriage. This would hurt many Southwest Florida senior citizens, who set up their households together so they will not lose their Social Security benefits or other pensions. [Link]

San Jose Mercury NewsJune 11, 2008Gay couples who marry in California in the upcoming months may find that they are not entitled to the same protections as straight couples, including tax breaks and divorce. [Link]

San Francisco ChronicleJune 11, 2008Columnist Mark Morford writes that people under 45 are moving issues such as marriage for gay couples forward, and suggests that all generations should try to be open to new perspectives. [Link]

San Francisco ChronicleJune 11, 2008LGBT advocacy groups released a memo that says that gay couples who marry in Calif. should get support from their local community, but refrain from filing lawsuits which could be harmful for marriage for gay couples. [Link]

The Desert SunJune 9, 2008We've been waiting our entire lives for equality, so the rush to exercise our new marriage rights is understandable. But couples may wish to hold off on getting married for a few weeks in order to make legal plans about their marriages and to be sure they understand just how marriage will affect them." [Link]

Toronto Globe and MailJune 9, 2008On the anniversary of Canada's gaining marriage equality, Martha McCarthy writes, "Today, five years later, as the judgment continues to change lives here and internationally, I simply say: Indeed. How proud we all should be that the Canadian vision of equality and freedom has life and meaning."[Link]

"Today, five years later, as the judgment continues to change lives here andinternationally, I simply say: Indeed. How proud we all should be that theCanadian vision of equality and freedom has life and meaning."

—Martha McCarthy on the fifth anniversary of marriage equality in Canada (June 10)